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You can lift out the hard drive by prying up
from the top left corner of the hard drive as
shown in the first image over to the right.. Once
it is safely out, you can disconnect the main
interface cable shown in the second image on
the right. The SATA interface cable is much
easier to disconnect than the older EIDE hard
drives seen in previous Apple laptops. You no
longer have to worry about bending pens. Just
pull it straight out and the hard drive should be
free. The hard drive has two screws on each
side that will need to be transferred over to the
new drive. These along with the bracket keep
the hard drive in place inside your MacBook
Pro.
Almost all hard drives you purchase will not
be formatted yet. You will need to place your
operating system CD in and boot up from it. It
shouldn’t find an operating system on the hard
drive so it should automatically boot from the
install disk. Once you are in the installer, you will
need to format the disk using the Disk Utility
software. This can usually be found in the top
menu in the installer. In the Disk Utility applica-
tion, make sure the hard drive is detected in the
list to the left. If it is not, you will need to go in
and recheck your connections between the hard
drive and the main logic board. If it is, click on
it, and make sure it is reporting the correct size.
You will then need to go to the “Erase” tab in
Disk Utility. Here you will be able to partition
and format the hard drive. In the format, it
should already be set to the correct value of
Mac OS Extended (Journaled). The next blank
is for the name of the volume. You can name
this whatever you like. The standard is “Macin-
tosh HD”, but it is completely up to you.
Once the hard drive is formatted, it is
ready to have the OS installed on it. If you are
just upgrading your hard drive, you can actually
clone your old drive onto the new one and save
all of your files. You will need an external hard
drive enclosure and cloning software (i.e. Car-
bon Copy Cloner). The hard drive enclosures
are available through our website. Carbon
Copy Cloner is free software available online.
The copy process can take several hours de-
pending on how much data you have on the
hard drive.
Powerbookmedic.com offers several hard
drive upgrades for your MacBook Pro. We
currently sell Hitachi drives which are known for
their superior Mac compatibility. You can view
the available drives by going to our store.
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STEP BY STEP
Hard Drive Upgrades
When replacing or
upgrading your MacBook Pro
hard drive, remember that
the new MacBooks use the
SATA interface instead of
the older EIDE interface
used on previous iBook and
Powerbook lines of Apple
products. The SATA
technology is a 50%
increase in speed over the
older drives.
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